The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-13

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w. w. Surpeon, Hon. JEFF Chandler
Stilson Hutchins, Hon. A. E. Stevenson
General J. NJ. Carse and General w. S,
Rosencrans.
Dinner over, President Taylor raped
to order, and in brief speech intro
duced the principal speaker, Hon John
G. Carlisle, whose chief virtue, he said
was that he had been
DENOUNCED BY sENArqAHoAR.
AS Speaker Carlisle arose, he was
greeted with applause. After express
ing his thanks for his cordial reception
he said: "You must permit me to ten
fder the sincere thanks of the Ken
lucky Democracy, not only for
what you have done in the
past, but also for what they know
you intend to do in the future. You
will not permit Massachusetts to remain
always Republican State. Old pre-
| JUDGES are passing away. Massachusetts
is always moving toward the Democratic
position. With the Bay State Club in
front and you brethren everywhere, we
hope to see her on the right of the line
in 1888. Gentlemen, in the very nature
of things, in this country, we need not
be ashamed to be known as party
| men," if we honestly believe that the
principles and policies represented by
the organization to which we are at
| tached will promote
THE INTERESTS OF THE NATION
and the welfare of the people. This
is the only true basis for a politi-
cal party, and any party organized upon
foundation less broad, less patriotic,
than his. will soon degenerate into a
mere faction and cease to command or
deserve the respect of intelligent citi-
zens. Every attempt to make a single
interest or single class, to the exclu-
sion of all others, as the basis of politi-
cal organization, will fail, and ought to
fail. From the formation of your insti-
tuition down to the present time, the
period of irreconciliable differences be-
tween the Democratic party and all its
adversaries has been as to the nature
and extent OF the federal powers. The
principle of local self government is the
vital part of Democracy. The amend
ment to the Constitution declares
that powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to State, are
reserved to the States respectively, or
to the people. No power can be justly
claimed unless it is granted. in express
terms or by necessary implication. If
no such grant of power can be found,
and if Its exercise by the State is not
prohibited, it
BELONGS TO THE STATE
and her people, and thus while the doc
trine of States rights is defended in that
article, yet it does not sanction seces-
sion or notification but it instructs the
several States and its people as the
boundaries of all legislative, executive
and judicial power not delegated to the
United States by fair and reasonable
construction of the Constitution. BY this
constitutional doctrine of States rights,
the Democratic party Of this country
stands to-day as it always has stood,
and as, 1 trust, it will stand forever
hereafter. Loud applause). Twenty
FIVE years ago the tendency was TO
carry this doctrine to dangerous
extreme has been threatened from
quite an opposite direction. Great and
powerful interests, too powerful almost
to be successfully resisted, are con-
stantly pressing against the barriers OF
the Constitution, demanding the ex-
tension of the Federal power to q
degree never contemplated by the
most extreme Federalist in the early
days. 1t is quite common, now, to
hear gentlemen, able gentlemen. in
Congress and elsewhere, contending for
an exercise of power by the general
cover nment over particular subjects,
simply because the States refuse to do
so or because it is thought that State
legislation might be entirely effective.
The argument is that whatever the
States will not do, and cannot do,
MUST BE DONE BY CONGRESS
or the departments of the general gov
eminent, and that independently of
their specific grants of power, it is the
right and duty of government to
exercise general supervision and con-
troll over all concerns of the people.
Mr.. President. this is not Democratic
doctrir as [ understand 1t, and itnever
was. Tremendous cheers.) 1t means
first and inevitable dis
solution afterwards. No part of
the Union is so vitality interested
in the preservation and main
tenance intact of this local
authority as the New England States,
and in no part of the Union have the
results attending the main
tenance of this doctrine been SO thor
ouehIy demonstrated. Your town
is the most Democratic institu-
ton in this country (cheers). 1t has
reyer endangered the liberties of a
sir Ole human being. The town, state,
and the general government all have
their appropriate powers and duties.
and so long as these are respected and
neither encroschlng on the
domain of the other, there viii be har-
mony and unitydn our complex system
of government. Fortunately, we nave
at last been permitted to inaugurate